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UN: South Sudan’s food crisis is the worst in the world
The UN Security Council has warned over South Sudan's food crisis as the worst in the world, calling for urgent action. It said there was...
Libya: US embassy in Tripoli evacuates its staff over security concerns
The staff of the US embassy in the Libyan capital Tripoli has been temporarily evacuated over security concerns. The US embassy staff, including marine guards...
Air Algerie crash: No survivors after AH 5017 crashed in Mali
Al passengers and crew members on board of Air Algerie flight AH5017 died after the aircraft crashed in Mali, says the French President, Francois...
Air Algerie crash: Wreckage of flight AH 5017 found in Mali
The wreck of Air Algerie plane that disappeared with 116 people on board on a flight from Burkina Faso to Algiers has been found...
Meriam Ibrahim meets Pope Francis at Vatican
Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, the Sudanese woman who fled to Italy after being spared a death sentence for renouncing Islam, has met Pope Francis...
Air Algerie flight AH 5017 crashes on route from Burkina Faso to Algiers
Air Algerie flight AH 5017 crashed on July 24 en route from Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso to Algiers with 110 passengers on board, an...
Air Algerie flight AH 5017 missing on route from Burkina Faso
Air Algerie has lost contact with one of its planes flying from Burkina Faso. Contact was lost about 50 minutes after take-off from Ouagadougou, Algeria's...
Meriam Ibrahim: Sudan apostasy woman flown to Italy
Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, the Sudanese woman who was spared a death sentence for renouncing Islam, has flown to Italy after more than a...
Oscar Pistorius in nightclub row with Jared Mortimer
Oscar Pistorius was involved in an argument at a nightclub at the weekend, his spokesperson has said. The South African athlete had an altercation with...
Missing Nigeria girls: Malala Yousafzai meets President Goodluck Jonathan
Malala Yousafzai has met Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan to press for more action to free at least 200 girls held by Boko Haram Islamist...
Ebola outbreak: 25 more people die in West Africa
Twenty five more people have died from Ebola in West Africa since July 3, taking the total number of deaths to 518, health officials...
Oscar Pistorius trial: Defense team ends its case
Oscar Pistorius’ lawyer Barry Roux has said that some witnesses refused to testify at the televised trial of the South African athlete because of...
Leaked video of Oscar Pistorius re-enacting moment he shot Reeva Steenkamp
The defense team of South African Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius has condemned the airing of a video showing the athlete re-enacting the events of...
Lamu Island shootings: At least 13 people killed in two Kenyan coastal district attacks
Two deadly shootings have been reported in Kenya's coastal district of Lamu, the scene of several attacks claimed by Islamic militants this year. Houses have...
Senegal elections 2014: PM Aminata Toure sacked after ruling party’s poor results
Senegal’s PM Aminata Toure has been sacked after her ruling party's poor results in local elections last Sunday. Local officials said President Macky Sall had...
Oscar Pistorius suffers from disability anxiety
Oscar Pistorius has been greatly affected by his disability, a sports doctor has told his murder trial. Dr. Wayne Derman told the court in Pretoria...
Oscar Pistorius verdict: Athlete had no mental disorder when he killed Reeva Steenkamp
Oscar Pistorius did not have a mental disorder when he killed Reeva Steenkamp, a psychological report said as his murder trial resumed in Pretoria. The...
Mariam Ibrahim freed again from Sudan jail
Mariam Ibrahim, whose death sentence for renouncing Islam was overturned in Sudan, has been released from jail again, after she was detained at Khartoum...
Ebola outbreak out of control in West Africa
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), "drastic action" is needed to contain the spread of deadly Ebola in West Africa. Nearly 400 people have...
Banex Plaza bomb attack: At least 21 people killed in Abuja blast
At least 21 people have been killed and other 52 injured in a bomb attack on Banex Plaza shopping center in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja. The...
Nigeria bomb attack: Abuja’s Banex Plaza shopping center hit by huge explosion
A huge explosion rocked an area near Banex Plaza shopping centre in the Nigerian capital Abuja on Wednesday, two witnesses said. The blast hit Abuja's...
Meriam Ibrahim re-arrested at Khartoum airport
Meriam Ibrahim has been detained with her family at Khartoum airport after she was freed from death row on Monday. Meriam Ibrahim, 27, was sentenced...
Mariam Ibrahim freed from Sudan’s jail
Mariam Ibrahim, the Sudanese woman sentenced to death for abandoning her Islamic faith has been freed from jail, her lawyer has announced. Mariam Yahia Ibrahim...
Mpeketoni attack: At least 15 people killed in new al-Shabab raid
At least 15 people have been killed in a new attack by Somalia's Islamist militants near Mpeketoni in Kenya. Local police say the gunmen raided...
Mpeketoni attack: At least 48 people killed as gunmen target hotels and police station
Unidentified gunmen attacked hotels and a police station in Kenyan town of Mpeketoni killing at least 48 people, officials say. Witnesses in Mpeketoni said gun...
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